[Illustration: _Photographer_. “I think this is an excellent Portrait of
your Wife.”
_Mr. Smallweed_. “I don’t know--sort of _repose_ about the mouth that
somehow doesn’t seem right”]
[Illustration: “Where did yer spend yer ’Olidays, Bob?”
“Souf o’ Frarnce, o’ course!”]
[Illustration: HOSPITALITY.
_Spokesman of Working Men’s Club_ (_on the occasion of their Patron’s
first visit_). “And we ’opes, Sir, as this ’ll be _neither_ the _first_ nor
the _last_ time as you’ll dew us the honner of settin’ among us!”]
[Illustration: SO INVITING!]
[Illustration: ’_Bus Conductor_, “Emmersmith! Emmersmith! ’Ere ye are!
Emmersmith!”
’_Liza Ann_. “Oo er yer callin’ Emmer Smith? Sorcy ’ound!”]
[Illustration: _Enthusiastic Briton_ (_to seedy American, who has been
running down all our National Monuments_). “But even if our Houses of
Parliament ‘aren’t in it,’ as you say, with the Masonic Temple of
Chicago, surely, Sir, you will admit the Thames Embankment, for
instance----”
_Seedy American_. “Waal, _guess_ I don’t think so durned much of your
Thames Embankment, neither. It _rained_ all the blarmed time the night I
_slep_ on it.”]
[Illustration: “Gentlemen, I am ready to admit that his Career in the
Past has not been free from Blemish----”]
[Illustration: FASHIONABLE AND SEASONABLE.